Preparing for your Soap Opera!
Write your responses in your historian's journal!
A. Go to: http://www.casahistoria.net/usa_immigration.htm#2._The_immigrants
Pick the country that your immigrant will be coming from. Remember this has to be between 1880-1930.
1. Why are you picking this country? What interests you about it?
2. Pick the year when your immigrant is leaving this country.
3. According to the history you are reading, why would someone want to leave this country? List at least three push factors.
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B. Go to: http://www.history.com/minisite.do?content_type=Minisite_Generic&content_type_id=1468&display_order=2&mini_id=1459
Look at the side bar and write down two-three facts from each section that you will use in your story (what might some of your characters do at each point?):
1. Entrance
2. Baggage
3. Stairs of Separation
4. Medical Exams
5. Cafeteria
6. Great Hall
7. Dormitories
8. Kissing Post
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C. Go to: http://web.archive.org/web/20040217173029/http:/www.people.virginia.edu/~eas5e/Sadlier/Life.html
1. Pick three images that you like. What do they inspire you to write about in your story? What did you learn from each picture and description that you can use in your story in some way?
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